Songs for Empowered Women

There is a specific topic page on Songs about Women that includes links to the chapter lists for feminist songs in Rise Up Singing and Rise Again. This particular page is a collection of some of our favorite songs by and about women claiming power in their lives and work.

Some older classics:

• Bella Ciao (lyrics in RUS are from feminists in 1970s)
• Can't Kill the Spirit (Naomi Morena)
• Fight Back (Holly Near)
• I Am Willing (Holly Near)
• I Am a Woman (Ruth Pelham)
• Mountain Song (Holly Near)
• No Hole in My Head (Malvina Reynolds)
• Still Ain't Satisfied (Bonnie Lockhart)
• We Don't Need the Men (Malvina Reynolds)
• I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
• I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Nina Simone)
• Ella's Song (Bernice Johnson Reagon)
• Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves (Annie Lennox)
• These Boots Are Made for Walkin' (Nancy Sinatra)
• We Were There (Bev Grant)

Rosa's Lovely Daughters (Robb Johnson)

Other songs in The Music Box:

Some newer anthems:

• Fight Like a Girl (Raye Zaragoza)
• Never One Thing (May Erlewine)
• Put a Woman in Charge (Keb' Mo' & Rosanne Cash)
• Resilient (Rising Appalachia)

These Hands (Linda Hirschhorn)
A Woman's Place (Sara Thomsen)
Working Class Woman (Barbara Dane)